Green-crowned Plovercrest
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Green-crowned Plovercrest
Here the details of the Green-crowned Plovercrest named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Trochilus Lalandi Nouv.Dict.Hist.Nat. 23 p.427 pl.G.36 fig.3
Taxonomy: Caprimulgiformes / Trochilidae / Stephanoxis
Taxonomy Code: plover3
Type Locality: Brazil.
Author: Vieillot
Publish Year: 1818
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
STEPHANOXIS
(Trochilidae; Ϯ Green-crowned Plovercrest S. lalandi) Gr. στεφανος stephanos crown < στεφανοω stephanoō to crown; οξυς oxus, οξεια oxeia pointed; "STEPHANOXIS, nom. nov. Cephallepis Lodd., 1830. — Cephalolepis auct. (nom. praeocc.)" (Simon 1897); "Stephanoxis Simon, Cat. Trochil., 1897, p. 40. New name for Cephallepis Loddiges and Cephalolepis Cabanis and Heine, both preoccupied." (Peters 1945, V, 30).
Var. Stephanoxys.
Synon. Cephallepis, Cephalolepis.
lalandei / lalandi / lalandii
Pierre Antoine Delalande (1787-1823) French naturalist, explorer, collector in Brazil 1816, and tropical Africa 1818-1822 (syn. Circus maurus, Stephanoxis).
UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
● and ● See: generic homonyms
lowercase: species and subspecies
●: early names, variants, mispellings
‡: extinct
†: type species
Gr.: ancient Greek
L.: Latin
<: derived from
syn: synonym of
/: separates historical and modern geographic names
ex: based on
TL: type locality
OD: original diagnosis (genus) or original description (species)
